Shenmue Creator To Hold Port-Mortem On Game At GDC

Shenmue creator Yu Suzuki will be holding a post-mortem on the game at the 2014 Game Developers Conference, Gamasutra reports. Suzuki’s talk will be translated by Mark Cerny, lead system architect for the PlayStation 4.

Suzuki will begin the talk by discussing the origins of Shemue as an RPG based on the Virtua Fighter series, originally in development for the Sega Saturn. He will go on to reveal how the game ended up in its final form on the Sega Dreamcast in 1999.

The session will be an hour long in length. GDC 2014 will take place in San Francisco, California from March 17th –21st, 2014.

the game would be cool if the game is like ” ps2 Jet Li Rise to Honor” because when the chars in Hong Kong they speak Chinese with English sub-tittle when the chars move to usa they speak engilsh I like it when they do that

yellowmage

“The session will be an hour long in length.”

Trope detected: Department of Redundancy Department

idrawrobots

I remember seeing that HD remakes of 1 & 2 were done and that Sega was sitting on them.

doubleO7

It turned out to be a bogus rumor. Or rather, they may have actually been worked on at one point before being canned, but the employee that leaked this information was not aware that they were already cancelled (or maybe he did know, but wanted to tease us anyways).

idrawrobots

That is a huge disappointment. I would buy them so quickly.

thaKingRocka

You can’t perform a post-mortem on something that is still alive. We will find Lan Di someday. Hope never dies.

Aoshi00

I know, I still haven’t given up either. Lots of old series get revived even after a long time when you least expect it, shenmue was totally before its time.. we will find that bastard Lan Di yet! We got Drakengard 3.. If we get Shenmue 3, I would die happy..

thaKingRocka

Today’s news is very promising.

Aoshi00

As long as its not mobile lol.. yeah there’s always rumor and hoaxes to get people’s hopes up, but my hope still lives on.. Sleeping dogs which I loved felt like a Shenmue to me.. I’m actually not too big a fan of yakuza.. if they could milk yakuza so much they should give ryo a damn chance to find Lan di :(

Göran Isacson

I am going to be “that guy” now and say that a post mortem is “in video game terms”, a document describing a developers experiences with working on a game, what they’ve learned, what they liked and what they could have done better. Not necessarily a euology on the franchise itself.

Of course there’s the possibility you already knew that and I just ruined your joke, in which case: my bad.

thaKingRocka

It’s your bad, but no worries. :)

doubleO7

Hmm. Remember when Adam Boyes said this regarding Sony’s “Big List of Games”?
““I would say within the next six months we’ll have at least one if not a few announcements to make.”

I wonder… not that I’m actually expecting anything though :/

Sesshomaru

Who cares! Make 3. I’m still stuck in that stupid cave. I wish I’d never played it.